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A year of lockdowns has made a lot of us re-evaluate our lives and our priorities. For busy people, especially busy people who actually like their work, it can be a challenging thing to slow down. What happens when the thing at the centre of your life – the thing that makes your life make sense – ceases to be there? And what might that make space for, if you let it? Maybe you’d start to notice other things that you had overlooked, because you were so busy all the time…

Grace Dent tells the story of a Leicester secondary school teacher whose life has been radically changed by a year of lockdowns.

Produced by Mair Bosworth in Bristol for Â鶹Éç Audio